Editorial Staff

Christine Kim

Christine Kim is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in Asian North American literature and theory, diaspora studies, and cultural studies. She is the author of The Minor Intimacies of Race (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and co-editor of Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012). Currently she is working on a SSHRC funded book-length project on representations of North Korea, cultural fantasies, and Cold War legacies.

Nicholas Bradley

Nicholas Bradley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, where he teaches Canadian literature and American literature. He has particular interests in Canadian poetry and the multicultural literatures of the Pacific Northwest. He is the editor of We Go Far Back in Time: The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947–1987 (2014) and the co-editor of Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context (2013). He has also published numerous essays on aspects of Canadian literature.

Phinder Dulai

Phinder Dulai is the author of three poetry collections: dream / arteries (Talonbooks, 2014), Basmati Brown (Nightwood Editions, 2000), and Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995). His work has also been published in Canadian Literature, Offerings, Cue Books Anthology, Ankur, Matrix, Memewar Magazine, Rungh, The Capilano Review, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Toronto South Asian Review, subTerrain and West Coast LINE.

A consulting editor and member of the Talonbooks’ Poetry Board, Phinder Dulai is also a co-founder of the interdisciplinary contemporary arts group South of Fraser Inter-Arts Collective (SOFIA/c), and a past adjudicator for the Canada Council for the Arts.

Recently, Phinder Dulai led the design and served as faculty lead for Centering Ourselves: Writing in a Racialized Canada. This residency was hosted at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada’s first dedicated literary incubator for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour authors.

Sophie McCall

Sophie McCall is a settler scholar in the English department at Simon Fraser University. Her main areas of research and teaching are Indigenous literary studies in Canada from the 20th and 21st centuries. She has published widely on topics such as textualizing oral history, collaboration, the struggle for Indigenous rights, decolonization, resurgence, and reconciliation. With Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) she is co-chair of the Indigenous Voices Awards. Her current SSHRC-funded research project (with NunatuKavut scholar Kristina Bidwell) is Indigenous-Led Collaboration in the Indigenous Literary Arts.

Glenn Deer

Glenn Deer teaches Asian Canadian and Asian American Writing, Canadian Literature, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority (1994). Before becoming Associate Editor, he guest-edited Canadian Literature #163 : Asian Canadian Writing.

Danielle Wong

Danielle Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Prior to joining UBC’s Department of English Language and Literatures, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University.